Google surprised everyone with the launch of Chrome which was their first salvo in the ongoing Browser Wars raging across the Internet.
The browser war is all about owning the user and is being most fiercely pursued by Google and Microsoft. Google want people using apps independent of OS across the Internet, Microsoft want people firmly in applications on people's desktops.
Whoever win will inherit the user, and the revenue those users represent.
About a month into learning to live with it, I love Google's new browser; Chrome. It is a fabulous first move in the Browser Wars, that has pretty much immediately made Safari irrelevent, and pushed IE way to the back of the queue.
Here's my current browser round-up.
1 - Mozilla Firefox; open source community, stable, quick, great features, good compatibility across majority of sites. Browser of choice for everyday. 8/10
2 - Google Chrome; fabulous new kid on the block. New approach, stable, but not enough compatibility across websites yet. Will be browser of choice for me as soon as possible. 8/10
3 - Apple Safari; Good enough. A kind of 'better IE' in that it does most things IE does, but slightly quicker with an Apple interface. 5/10
4 - Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE); Dog of a browser. Unstable, heavy, slow, bloated, heavy-handed security. 2/10
If you haven't spent some time with Chrome it is worth the time investment.
